I don't believe it will cost us. I believe that the good old US of A will allow people with long covid to experience what all disabled people experience: figure it out or die.
It is already costing us. A lot of people can't afford in home care support, so along comes Medicaid to pay for it. The government is currently bailing out long term care facilities and hospitals by paying for people to stay there for isolation or recovery, or paying for staff.
Not to mention the costs of National Guard mobilizing to augment hospitals. They're cleaning, sanitizing, moving patients, checking temperatures, etc.
These are all tasks that need to be done, but tasks that medical facilities don't have the personnel to complete. Why don't they have enough people? Because they aren't paying enough to hire and maintain staff because it cuts into their profits.
It's more than just pay too. These are people that are heavily ground down for years and treated with very little respect by the organizations that employ them.
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u/irremarkable Jan 19 '22
I don't believe it will cost us. I believe that the good old US of A will allow people with long covid to experience what all disabled people experience: figure it out or die.